Re: [microsound] WTF Re: [microsound] New Orleans?

[graham miller <grahammiller@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

kubick wrote:

> this is obviously ot but
> actually i think that the most recent 2 elections have proven once
> and for all
> that at least in the case of america, democracy does not work, for the
> majority of the population.
> i would also remind you that new orleans and in fact louisiana
> traditionally
> vote democratic, not republican.  some have even ventured that political
> friction, in addition to ineptitude and corruption (eg the head of
> the disaster agency
> which was caught wth its pants around its ankles was a crony of bushs
> with
> no experience who has completely gutted that agency) were the basis
> for the delay
> in getting emergency troops into the area.
>
> at any rate, the suggestion that hundreds of thousands of
> disenfranchised people
> deserve to suffer because of "bad karma" over the world political
> machinations
> of a group of very corrupt and very powerful people  seems in a very
> obvious way to be
> lacking in compassion.
>
> if anything i would see the destruction of poverty stricken
> neighborhoods as
> evidence of either a cruel god who does not mete out punishment
> fairly or perhaps evidence that there is no grand plan at all.
>
> i certainly hope that you would not carry your logic further and
> suggest that the asian tsunami
> victims, victims of the many earthquakes each year, or perhaps even
> the victims of the iraq
> war (genocide off the american indians..??..holocaust..???) are
> evidence of bad karma......
>
> i come from those who believe firmly that the aids epidemic is NOT
> evidence of the sinfulness
> of being gay, or using intravenous drugs, but rather an unfortunate
> and devastating health
> epidemic that should be resolved as quickly as possible and i ask you
> to reconsider your position.
> best,
> chris kubick
>
> >
> > if democracy works than the americans deserve *exactly* what they
> > get in
> > terms of military and federal help. they voted for him. now they
> > can reap
> > the rewards of a 'leader' bent on destroying liberty, reason,
> > humanity, the
> > planet, and its increasingly fragile ecology, via his own incredibly
> > efficient ignorance, stupidity, piety, and avarice.
>
> > like i said, bad karma, with no one to blame except the imaginary
> > god which
> > supposedly lights his way and the very global warming and climatic
> > devastation prompted by the fuel wars. time to trade kevlar in for
> > water
> > wings.


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